Last Call

By Megan Ryder

Lacey LeBeau has been focused on family and managing The Salty Dog ever since Zach Channing walked out of her life ten years ago. Granted, he was a summer crush and they were barely out of school. She understood that he wanted to see the world as an outdoor photographer and she was a homebody, loving her small town, but she couldn't help but wait for him every time June rolled around, to not avail. Just when she had given up hope, he saunters back into her life to blow it all up again.

 

Zach Channing loved Lacey but yearned to see the world and prove himself as a photographer. After a freak accident that shatters his leg and his career, he comes back to the one place that soothed his soul - Swan's Creek Maine. Only this time, he's coming back to take his uncle home to Boston after his uncle's heart attack, effectively closing the bar that Lacey loves and ending her dreams of ownership.

 

Can Zach and Lacey find their love together and a new path forward to happiness?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Megan Ryder
• Release date: Jan 25, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224337668

Megan Ryder

Ever since Megan Ryder discovered Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught while sneaking around the “forbidden” romance section of the library one day after school, she has been voraciously devouring romance novels of all types. Now a romance author in her own right, Megan pens sexy contemporary novels all about family and hot lovin’ with the boy next door. She lives in Connecticut, spending her days as a technical writer and her spare time divided between her addiction to knitting and reading.

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Last Call

Last Call

THE LAST SHOT SERIES

BOOK TWO

MEGAN RYDER

Last Call

Lacey LeBeau has been focused on family and managing The Salty Dog ever since Zach Channing walked out of her life ten years ago. Granted, he was a summer crush and they were barely out of school. She understood that he wanted to see the world as an outdoor photographer and she was a homebody, loving her small town, but she couldn't help but wait for him every time June rolled around, to not avail. Just when she had given up hope, he saunters back into her life to blow it all up again.

Zach Channing loved Lacey but yearned to see the world and prove himself as a photographer. After a freak accident that shatters his leg and his career, he comes back to the one place that soothed his soul - Swan's Creek Maine. Only this time, he's coming back to take his uncle home to Boston after his uncle's heart attack, effectively closing the bar that Lacey loves and ending her dreams of ownership.

Can Zach and Lacey find their love together and a new path forward to happiness?

Copyright © August 2022 by Megan Ryder

Edited by Gail Chianese

Cover by Bookin’ It Designs

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Chapter One

I’m looking for my fiancée.

The words echoed in the bar, hanging heavy in the sweltering heat of the late Saturday afternoon. The few regulars in The Salty Dog swiveled their heads and stared at the woman behind the bar, sensing gossip like sharks scenting blood in the water. Lacey LeBeau stared at the man standing in the doorway, the sun shining around him, blinding her. But that voice. She hadn’t heard it in over a decade, but late at night that dark rasp still echoed in her dreams. Zachary Channing.

You’ve been M.I.A. for ten years. I kind of figured I was a free agent, she replied coolly, trying to calm her racing heart, her hands wringing the towel she’d been using to dry glasses.

You’re breaking my heart, darling, he drawled and stepped further into the bar.

The boy she once pretended to be engaged to had matured into a dark and sexy man, possibly even more lethal to her than he was at eighteen. In moments of weakness, she had kept tabs on him via social media. His trips overseas, his photos in various magazine spreads, his dating history. Pictures didn’t prepare her for the sheer physical presence of the man, the raw masculinity he hadn’t exhibited the last summer he had been in Swan’s Creek. While he’d been just out of college, he’d still been a boy compared to the virile man prowling into her